Larry McMurtry's Copy
No Villain Need Be
Publication: Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition.
Notes: The last volume of the Vridar Hunter tetralogy, a semi-autobiographical series tracing the protagonist's intellectual and religious life. "No Villain Need Be (1936) shows Vridar as a professor at a Mormon college and as a struggling author among New York bohemians, and his eventual discovery that there can be no peace for the individual until all men reach 'a splendid fellowship.'"—Oxford Companion to American Literature.
[x], 387, [1:blank] pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a few short closed tears and nicks to the edges. The spine is slightly faded. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This copy previously belonged to Pulitzer Prize– and Academy Award–winning author Larry McMurtry, and it has his bookplate on the front pastedown.
Item No: #52978
Price: $150